WILDCAT ONE IN THE NEWS
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- Soapbox: How do you keep and motivate senior associates in your firm (PDF)
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One of the critical challenges facing professional firms is how they retain and continue to motivate talented people who may not make it to partner. Coaching is one potential approach.
- Avert merger disaster by ensuring all the pieces fit
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A staggering 70 per cent of mergers and acquisitions typically fail to deliver the synergies and shareholder value they promised - an alarming and expensive margin of error which is attributed variously to poor systems integration, clashing egos, flawed intentions, insufficient planning and bad - or non- existent - communication.
- Leap of faith into soft-skills development (PDF)
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Managers are getting in touch with their feelings to get ahead according to executive coaching specialist Wildcat One.
- Without clear objectives it can all end in tears (PDF)
- "Roughly two-thirds of mergers and acquisitions historically fail to achieve the benefits they expected - and that's a big margin of error," says Pat Tomlin, director of M & A integration specialist and troubleshooting consultancy Wildcat One.
- Questionnaire to test career satisfaction
- Are you one of the thousands of workers planning to leave
their current job or business in the next 12 months? Perhaps you feel your
career is not on track and you're moving in the wrong direction. But do you
know where you'd rather be heading?
"People often fail to determine the goals to direct their way forward," says Pat Tomlin, director of Wildcat One, a coaching and troubleshooting consultancy.
- Women are natural in "glass cliff" roles (PDF)
- Men are great at the strong line, but can often miss the cues which would have enabled a more co-operative approach and, in the longer term, produced a better result.
- Glass cliff plunge not inevitable for women (PDF)
- Not all women in so called glass cliff roles are doomed to failure.
- All change if firms are to board the orient express
- Scotland's boardrooms need a shake-up if companies are to conquer emerging markets such as China and India. According to Edinburgh-based management development specialist Wildcat One, the global march eastwards will leave Scottish businesses stranded unless they radically change the West-centred dynamic of their boardrooms.
- Wildcat on the hunt for a challenge
- A profile of Pat Tomlin
- Top marks for good behaviour in search for dream candidates
- Recruitment mistakes can be very expensive and employers are seeking every means to ensure a good fit between what they want and what's on offer", says Pat Tomlin, director of troubleshooting and people development consultancy Wildcat One. "It might seem a bit obvious, but the principle of competency-based interviews is that past behaviour is a good predictor of future behaviour".
